By John Klyce

Memphis. 1944. Jack and Irma Bronson huddled in a waiting room with their 16-year-old son Stan. The cool office air raised the hairs on their necks and the doctor’s furnace provided little warmth. As Jack paced back and forth, Irma gingerly rested a hand on her son’s shoulder. In her other hand was a medical report on Stan. A birth trauma had left him mentally disabled with a slight palsy, giving him the permanent intellectual age of a ten-year old. She glanced down at the report:

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